Happy New Year! 2023 is in the books and we’re sneaking our best of the year thoughts just under the wire! It was a wild year for the movie business and who knows how much we’ll actually get next year because of it. In the meantime though, there was plenty to celebrate about 2023 in cinemas. From kaiju action epics on a budget, to both halves of Barbenheimer, indies that aren’t really indies and directorial debuts that blew us away, here are our picks for the 10 best movies of 2023.

While action franchises like Mission: Impossible and John Wick delivered exponentially more of what they’re known for, others went back to their roots. Horror films gave us more Evil Dead and a terrifying movie dressed up as a comedy from Ari Aster. Both Barbie and Oppenheimer surged in the box office but they might not have even been the best movie that came out that day. Meanwhile we got more Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Ridley Scott and Hayao Miyazaki which is never a bad thing! All that to say, 2023 was pretty great!

The Picks:

10 - Action Blockbuster - Godzilla Minus One - dir. Takashi Yamazaki
9 - Documentary - Beyond Utopia - dir. Madeleine Gavin
8 - Animation - The Boy and The Heron - dir. Hayao Miyazaki
7 - Horror - Talk to Me - dir. Michael and Danny Philippou
6 - Thriller - Killers of the Flower Moon - dir. Martin Scorsese
5 - Sci Fi Fantasy - They Cloned Tyrone - dir. Juel Taylor
4 - Comedy - Poor Things - dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
3 - Indie Drama - Asteroid City - dir. Wes Anderson
2 - Foreign - The Taste of Things - dir. Tranh Anh Hung
1 - Prestige Drama - The Zone of Interest - dir. Jonathan Glazer

This movie list was written and edited by Billy Jackson.

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